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2016非洲国家治理指数出炉The annual Ibrahim Index on African Governance shows almost two in three African citizens live in countries in which safety and the rule of law have deteriorated during the past decade.每年一度的易卜拉欣非洲国家治理指数显示，几乎有三分之二的非洲公民都居住在这样的国家过去十年中，国内安全与法治指标呈恶化态势。Presenting the findings Monday, the founder of the index, Sudanese-born billionaire and philanthropist Mo Ibrahim, said the statistics send a clear message.周一介绍上述调查结果时，该指数的创始人出生于苏丹人家庭的亿万富翁，同样也是一名慈善家的莫?易卜拉欣称，该统计数据向我们传达了一条明确的信息。This is a very strong mathematical correlation, between safety and the rule of law, and development. And so we cannot say it more louder, that we need peace in Africa.安全和法治与发展之间有着十分紧密的精确关系。因此下面这句话我们说得再大声也不为过非洲需要和平。Former top State Department official Jendayi E. Frazer,a member of the Mo Ibrahim Foundation, told VOA the decline in security is especially worrying.国务院前高级官员Jendayi E. Frazer也是易卜拉欣基金会的一名成员，他告诉VOA，如今各国安全指标下降的情况十分堪忧。Its clearly of concern because it is dragging down governance as a whole. But also because it affects the lives of people, you know, when you are talking about personal safety and national security you are talking about life and death.很显然，这种情况于我们有着重大关系，这不仅因为它拖垮了整个国家治理。更是因为人们的生活也受到了影响，你知道的，当你在谈论个人安全以及国家安全的时候，其实说的就是生与死。Libya has shown one of the sharpest declines in national security and personal safety. Britain and France led the NATO airstrikes that helped to oust Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi in 2011.在国家安全和个人安全下降幅度最大的国家中，利比亚占得一席。因为2011年，英国和法国曾领导北约进行空袭，帮助利比亚人民将独裁领导人卡扎菲驱逐出境。2016非洲国家治理指数出炉Frazer calls that intervention a clear mistake.Frazer称，这次军事干预行动就是一个大错误。We have lessons to learn. And one of the big lessons I would think is if the region is overwhelmingly against an intervention, you should hesitate, and you should think twice. Another lesson should be if you are not prepared to fix it, dont break it.我们未来要吸取教训。而我现在想到的一个非常重大的教训就是，万一这片区域的人们一边倒地反对干预行动，你就应该要犹豫一下，然后再三考虑。另一个教训是，要是你没准备好收拾残局，就先不要打破现状。South Africa slipped from third to sixth overall in the index. The report offers voice of concern of the state of the ANC-led government following recent corruption allegations and an economic slowdown.南非在整个非洲国家治理指数中由第三下滑至第六。在最近非国大领导的南非政府受到贪污腐败指控以及经济增速放缓之后，这篇报道也表达了人们对其现如今状态的担忧。But Frazer, the first female US ambassador to South Africa remains optimistic.不过美国驻南非第一个女性大使 Frazer依然保持乐观。I think South Africa has the capacity to arrest that decline. It has it in its institutions which are fairly strong and still independent. It has it in its civil society.我觉得南非有能力阻止安全指数继续下滑。其政府体系中有这种能力，南非的政府体系是相当强大的，而且至今很独立。其公民社会也有这种能力。Mauritius held on to the top spot, while Somalia remained at the bottom of the index. Rwanda was among the nations showing the fastest improvement, entering the top 10 for the first time.毛里求斯始终占据国家治理指数榜首，而索马里则一直垫底。在所有国家当中，卢旺达发展最快，如今已经首次跻身前十名的行列。克林顿亲信助手Joey:With Carol? Oh.和Carol？哦。Chandler:So in your whole life, youve only been with one. oh.那你这一辈子只和一个女人。喔。Joey:Whoah, boy, hockey was a big mistake!哇哦，哥儿们，看冰球是个大错误！There was a whole bunch of stuff we couldve done tonight!本来今天晚上我们有大把的事情可做的。Monica:Okay. Okay, I got one.好了，好了，我想起一个。Do you remember that vegetarian pate that I made that you loved so much?还记得我给你做的素菜派吗，你很喜欢吃？Phoebe:Uhhuh.啊哈。Monica:Well, unless goose is a vegetable.ha haaaah!嗯，除非鹅肉也是素菜，哈哈！Phoebe:Oh! Oh! Oh! Okay, fine, fine. Now I dont feel so bad about sleeping with Jason Hurley.哦！哦！哦！好吧，好好。现在我不感到和Jason Hurley。上床有什么可后悔的了。Monica:What? ! You slept with Jason?什么？！你和Jason 上过床？Phoebe:Youd already broken up.你们那时已经分手了。Rachel:How long?多久后？Phoebe:Just a couple hours.几个小时吧。Monica:Oh, thats nice!哦，好极了！Rachel:Okay, okay, okay, I got one!好了，好了，好了，我也想到一个！Anyway The valentine Tommy Rollerson left in your locker was really from me.总而言之，Tommy Rollerson放在你柜子里的情人节礼物实际上是我送给你的。Monica:Excuse me? !你说什么？Rachel:Hello? Like he was really gonna send you one? She was so big!喂？以为他真为送你礼物？她那时太大只了。Monica:Really. Well, at least big girls dont pee in their pants in seventh grade!真的，恩，至少大只的姑娘 在七年级时没尿过裤子。Rachel:I was laughing! You made me laugh!真好笑！你让我笑了！Phoebe:Oh, my God! There he is! There he is!他在那儿！他在那儿！Monica:Where?哪儿？Phoebe:Right where weve been looking all night!就是我们看了一晚上的地方。Rachel:He is so cute!他真帅！巨龙的召唤Hows your knee-walking coming alone? Oh, dont run away. From you?你学会跪着走路了么？哎，别避开我啊。避开你？Thank God. I thought you are deaf as well as dumb.谢天谢地。我还以为你又聋又哑呢。Look, Ive told you you are an ass. I just didnt realize you are a royal one.听着，我跟你说过你是个混蛋。只是没想到是个皇族的混蛋。What are you going to do? You got your daddys men to protect you?你有什么打算呢？叫你父王的侍卫来保护你吗？Haha, I can take you apart with one blow.哈哈，我吹口气就能将你大卸八块。I can take your apart with less than that.而我根本就不用花力气。Are you sure?你确定？Here you go, big man. Come on, then. I warn you, Ive been trained to kill since birth.拿着，大块头。动手吧。我警告你，我自出娘胎就训练搏斗了。Wow. And how long have you been training to be a prat?哇，那你训练了多久才变成一个白痴啊？You cant address me like that.你不能用这种语气和我说话。Sorry, how long have you been training to be a prat? My Lord.抱歉，那究竟训练了多久才变成白痴的呢？殿下。Come on, then, Merlin. Come on! You are in trouble now.动手吧 梅林。来啊！你有麻烦了。观想术You know, some people try visualization.有些人会尝试运用观想术。How does that work?那要怎么做？Okay, imagine your problems are a pen.好，想像你的问题是一支笔。Okay.好的。Now imagine youre holding that pen.现在想象你握着那支笔。Okay.好的。Now open your hand and let it go.现在松开手，让笔掉下来(算了吧)。But I just got this pen. Its got my initials on it and everything. Look.可我才拿到这支笔。上面有我名字的首字母缩写呢。你看。Sheldon, this isnt that hard.谢尔顿，这没有那么难。I may have a better way that you can teach me.我或许有个让你教我的更好办法。生活大爆炸20.jpgHow?怎么做？What if I told you that over the past few months Amy has secretly been giving you little puzzles to test your intelligence against chimpanzees in her lab?如果我告诉你，在过去几个月里，艾米在暗中悄悄让你做一些智力小难题，就为了对比你和她实验室黑猩猩谁更聪明呢？What? She didnt give me any puzzles.什么？她才没让我解决什么小难题呢。Are you sure?你确定吗？Boy, I just cant seem to get these scissors back together. Can you do it?天啊，我把剪刀弄成两半装不回来了。你能帮个忙吗？Darn it. Theres something in my eye, and I need to sort these coins by size. Can you help?糟糕。我的眼睛进东西了，我得把这些硬币按大小分类。你能帮个忙吗？Penny? I really want to eat this banana, but its stuck inside this bamboo puzzle box.佩妮？我超级想吃香蕉，但它被卡在这个竹子机关箱了。Son of a bitch!那个科学婊！Okay, thats great. Now, let it go.太好了。现在想，算了吧。Should, Would, Could的发音In this American English pronunciation video, were going to talk about the pronunciation of should, would, and could.These words all rhyme. The pronunciation is simpler than it looks; the L is silent. So they all have their beginning consonant, the UH as in BOOK vowel, and the D sound. Should, would, could. They rhyme with good, hood, and wood. Yes, would and wood are pronounced the same. They are homophones. So this is the pronunciation of these words in full.But, as you know, Americans like to reduce less important words in a sentence to make the important words stand out more.And these are three words that can be reduced.As with many reductions, we change the vowel to the schwa and speed up the word: should, should, would, would, could, could. Youll hear Americans go even further though, and drop the D. I noticed I did this when I was doing a Ben Franklin exercise on some of my speech.Should we get dinner?Yeah.Should we get dinner? One of the things I notice is that Im dropping the D sound, should we, should we.Shu, shu. Just the SH sound and the schwa.The lips are flared and the teeth are together, sh. The tongue tip is pointing up to the roof of the mouth, but its not touching it. Shu-, shu-. Then for the schwa, everything relaxes and you go into the next sound, shu-, shu-, shu-we, should we call her? Shu-we, shu-we. I should go. Shu-go, shu-go. I should go.Now, if the next sound is a vowel or a diphthong, I wouldnt drop the D.It would be too unclear to go from the schwa into another vowel. So for should I, should I, for example, I make a really quick flap of the tongue for the D. Should I, should I, should I say that? Should I try it? Should I call him?If dropping the D feels like too extreme of a reduction for you, you certainly dont have to do it. Just keep should unstressed, really quick, should, should, should.Now lets look at could. The K sound is made when the back part of the tongue comes up and touches the soft palate in the back, kk, kk, ku-. Could we try later? Could we, could we? Again, just dropping the D: k sound, schwa, next word. Could we, could we? Saying it with a D when the next word begins with a vowel or diphthong: Could I come back later? Could I, could I. So just a nice short could.Finally, would. For the W sound, the lips are in a tight circle, and the back part of the tongue lifts, ww, ww. Wuh. Would we want to do that? Would we? Would we? Would we want to do that? Or, with a really quick D sound: Where would I go? would I, would I, would I.So you can reduce these words by changing the vowel to the schwa.You can reduce them further by dropping the D, unless the next sound is a vowel or a diphthong.So make these words as fast as you can, theyre not the most important words in the sentence. Link them into the sentence. You want to say: where would I go? Instead of where WOULD I go, in order to have that give and take, long and short of American English.If theres a word or phrase youd like help pronouncing, please put it in the comments below. Dont forget to sign up for my mailing list by clicking here or in the description below to keep up with all my latest videos its free. In this American English pronunciation video, were going to talk about the pronunciation of should, would, and could.These words all rhyme. The pronunciation is simpler than it looks; the L is silent. So they all have their beginning consonant, the UH as in BOOK vowel, and the D sound. Should, would, could. They rhyme with good, hood, and wood. Yes, would and wood are pronounced the same. They are homophones. So this is the pronunciation of these words in full.But, as you know, Americans like to reduce less important words in a sentence to make the important words stand out more.And these are three words that can be reduced.As with many reductions, we change the vowel to the schwa and speed up the word: should, should, would, would, could, could. Youll hear Americans go even further though, and drop the D. I noticed I did this when I was doing a Ben Franklin exercise on some of my speech.Should we get dinner?Yeah.Should we get dinner? One of the things I notice is that Im dropping the D sound, should we, should we.Shu, shu. Just the SH sound and the schwa.The lips are flared and the teeth are together, sh. The tongue tip is pointing up to the roof of the mouth, but its not touching it. Shu-, shu-. Then for the schwa, everything relaxes and you go into the next sound, shu-, shu-, shu-we, should we call her? Shu-we, shu-we. I should go. Shu-go, shu-go. I should go.Now, if the next sound is a vowel or a diphthong, I wouldnt drop the D.It would be too unclear to go from the schwa into another vowel. So for should I, should I, for example, I make a really quick flap of the tongue for the D. Should I, should I, should I say that? Should I try it? Should I call him?If dropping the D feels like too extreme of a reduction for you, you certainly dont have to do it. Just keep should unstressed, really quick, should, should, should.Now lets look at could. The K sound is made when the back part of the tongue comes up and touches the soft palate in the back, kk, kk, ku-. Could we try later? Could we, could we? Again, just dropping the D: k sound, schwa, next word. Could we, could we? Saying it with a D when the next word begins with a vowel or diphthong: Could I come back later? Could I, could I. So just a nice short could.Finally, would. For the W sound, the lips are in a tight circle, and the back part of the tongue lifts, ww, ww. Wuh. Would we want to do that? Would we? Would we? Would we want to do that? Or, with a really quick D sound: Where would I go? would I, would I, would I.So you can reduce these words by changing the vowel to the schwa.You can reduce them further by dropping the D, unless the next sound is a vowel or a diphthong.So make these words as fast as you can, theyre not the most important words in the sentence. Link them into the sentence. You want to say: where would I go? Instead of where WOULD I go, in order to have that give and take, long and short of American English.If theres a word or phrase youd like help pronouncing, please put it in the comments below. Dont forget to sign up for my mailing list by clicking here or in the description below to keep up with all my latest videos its free.Thats it, and thanks so much for using Rachels English.爱因斯坦的宇宙Einstein was born in Ulm, in southern Germany, in 1879, but grew up in Munich. Little in his early life suggested the greatness to come. Famously he didnt learn to speak until he was three. In the 1890s, his fathers electrical business failing, the family moved to Milan, but Albert, by now a teenager, went to Switzerland to continue his educationthough he failed his college entrance exams on the first try. In 1896 he gave up his German citizenship to avoid military conscription and entered the Zurich Polytechnic Institute on a four-year course designed to churn out high school science teachers. He was a bright but not outstanding student.爱因斯坦1879年生于德国南部的乌尔姆，但在慕尼黑长大。他的早年生活几乎难以说明他将来会成为大人物。大家都知道，他到三岁才学会说话。19世纪90年代，他父亲的电器生意破产，举家迁往米兰，但这时候已经十来岁的阿尔伯特去了瑞士继续他的学业虽然他一开始就没有通过大学入学考试。1896年，他放弃了德国籍，以免被征入伍，进入了苏黎世联邦工业大学，攻读旨在培养中学教师的四年制课程。他是一名聪明而又不突出的学生。爱因斯坦In 1900 he graduated and within a few months was beginning to contribute papers to Annalen der Physik. His very first paper, on the physics of fluids in drinking straws (of all things), appeared in the same issue as Plancks quantum theory. From 1902 to 1904 he produced a series of papers on statistical mechanics only to discover that the quietly productive J. Willard Gibbs in Connecticut had done that work as well, in his Elementary Principles of Statistical Mechanics of 1901.1900年，他从学校毕业，没过几个月就开始把论文投给物理学年鉴。他的第一篇论文论述（在那么多可写的东西中偏偏论述）吸管里流体的物理学，与普朗克的量子理论发表在同一期上。从1902年到1904年，他写出了一系列关于统计力学的论文，结果发现，多产的J.威拉德吉布斯1901年在康涅狄格州已经悄悄地发表了同样的作品：统计力学的基本原理。康奈利福吉They went to bed at the usual time, waited until Neville, Dean, and Seamus had stopped discussing the Chamber of Secrets and finally fallen asleep,晚上，哈利和罗恩像平常一样上了床，一直等到纳威、迪安和西莫不再讨论密室、终于进入梦乡之后，then got up, dressed again, and threw the cloak over themselves.他们才从床上起来，重新穿好衣服，把大袍披在两个人的身上。The journey through the dark and deserted castle corridors wasnt enjoyable.穿过阴森森的走廊，这一路并不令人愉快。Harry, who had wandered the castle at night several times before, had never seen it so crowded after sunset.哈利以前曾好几次半夜三更在城堡里游逛，却从没有看见在太阳落山后还有这么多人。Teachers, prefects, and ghosts were marching the corridors in pairs, staring around for any unusual activity.老师、级长和幽灵成双成对地在走廊里巡逻，四处查看有无异常情况。Their Invisibility Cloak didnt stop them making any noise,哈利的隐形衣并不能防止他们发出声音，and there was a particularly tense moment when Ron stubbed his toe only yards from the spot where Snape stood standing guard.有一次格外惊险，罗恩突然绊了一下，而斯内普就在离他几步远的地方站岗。Thankfully, Snape sneezed at almost exactly the moment Ron swore.幸好，斯内普几乎就在罗恩发出咒骂的同时打了一个喷嚏。哈利波特与密室剧照It was with relief that they reached the oak front doors and eased them open.当他们终于来到栎木门前，并轻轻把它们打开时，才算松了口气。It was a clear, starry night.这是一个星光灿烂的夜晚，They hurried toward the lit windows of Hagrids house and pulled off the cloak only when they were right outside his front door.他们匆匆朝海格住处的那扇映着灯光的窗户走去，一直来到他的门外，他们才脱去了大袍。Seconds after they had knocked, Hagrid flung it open.在他们敲门几秒钟后，海格猛地把门打开。They found themselves face-to-face with him aiming a crossbow at them.他们迎面看见海格举着一套弓箭对准他们，Fang the boarhound barked loudly behind him.大猎狗牙牙在他身后高声狂吠。Oh, he said, lowering the weapon and staring at them.“哦，是你们，”他说，放下手里的武器，瞪着他们，Whatre you two doin here?“你们俩到这儿来干什么？”来自阿拉伯女商人的成功经验One thing to know about the Middle East关于中东需要知道的一件事,is that nearly every family has access to affordable domestic help.就是几乎每个家庭都能找到可负担费用的家务代理。The challenge therefore